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THOMAS AQUINAS (b. 1225 or 1226, d. 1274) is regarded as the greatest of scholastic philosophers. In all Catholic educational institutions that teach philosophy his system has to be taught as the only right one; this has been the rule since a rescript of 1879 by Leo XIII.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
The most influential medieval apologist of Western Christendom was its most influential theologian: Thomas Aquinas.
Joseph M. Holden • The Comprehensive Guide to Apologetics
There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead. He is not engaged in an inquiry, the result of which it is impossible to know in advance. Before he begins to philosophize, he already knows the truth; it is declared in the Catholic faith. If he can
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In its general outlines, the philosophy of Aquinas agrees with that of Aristotle, and will be accepted or rejected by a reader in the measure in which he accepts or rejects the philosophy of the Stagyrite.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Sciences are differentiated according to the various means through which knowledge is obtained.
Thomas Aquinas • Summa Theologica
Veritatis simplex oratio est. The language of truth is simple. Seneca
Jed McKenna • Spiritual Warfare (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 3)
God, thinks Aquinas, cannot literally intervene in the universe because he is always there—just as much in the normal, natural run of things as in the resurrection of Christ or in any other miraculous event.”